<000005>With tears of joy Lisette witnessed the entry into Paris of the Comte d¡¯Artois on April 12th and of Louis XVIII. shortly afterwards. By his side sat the Duchesse d¡¯Angoul¨ºme, whose smiles mingled with sadness amidst the shouts of ¡°Vive le Roi¡±; recalled the remembrance that she was traversing the route by which her mother had passed to the scaffold.
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The Comte de Provence, his brother, remarks in his souvenirs: ¡°The court did not like Louis XVI., he was too uncongenial to its ways, and he did not know how to separate himself from it, and to draw nearer to the people, for there are times when a sovereign ought to know how to choose between one and the other. What calamities my unfortunate brother would have spared himself and his family, if he had known how to hold with a firm hand the sceptre Providence had entrusted to him.¡± [84]Lisette paid no attention to the dissuasions of her friends; in spite of all they said she knew quite well that she was in danger. No one could be safe, however innocent, if any suspicion or grudge against [86] them was in the minds of the ruffians who were thirsting for blood.M. de Montagu returns to Paris¡ªM. de Beaune¡ªRichmond¡ªDeath of No¨¦mi¡ªAix-la-Chapelle¡ªEscape of the Duc d¡¯Ayen and Vicomte de Noailles¡ªLa Fayette arrested in Austria¡ªThe Hague¡ªCrossing the Meuse¡ªMargate¡ªRichmond¡ªHardships of poverty¡ªBrussels¡ªLetter from Mme. de Tess¨¦¡ªJoins her in Switzerland¡ªMurder of M. and Mme. de Mouchy¡ªGoes to meet the Duc d¡¯Ayen¡ªHe tells her of the murder of her grandmother, Mme. de Noailles, her mother, the Duchesse d¡¯Ayen, and her eldest sister, the Vicomtesse de Noailles¡ªMme. de la Fayette still in prison.The abbey was very beautiful, and there were more than a hundred nuns besides the lay sisters and the pensionnaires (children and young girls being educated there).
